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title = "Stick to the Facts: Learning towards a Fidelity-oriented {E}-Commerce Product Description Generation",
author = "Chan, Zhangming and
Chen, Xiuying and
Wang, Yongliang and
Li, Juntao and
Zhang, Zhiqiang and
Gai, Kun and
Zhao, Dongyan and
Yan, Rui",
editor = "Inui, Kentaro and
Jiang, Jing and
Ng, Vincent and
Wan, Xiaojun",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)",
month = nov,
year = "2019",
address = "Hong Kong, China",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/D19-1501",
doi = "10.18653/v1/D19-1501",
pages = "4959--4968",
abstract = "Different from other text generation tasks, in product description generation, it is of vital importance to generate faithful descriptions that stick to the product attribute information. However, little attention has been paid to this problem. To bridge this gap we propose a model named Fidelity-oriented Product Description Generator (FPDG). FPDG takes the entity label of each word into account, since the product attribute information is always conveyed by entity words. Specifically, we first propose a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) decoder based on the Entity-label-guided Long Short-Term Memory (ELSTM) cell, taking both the embedding and the entity label of each word as input. Second, we establish a keyword memory that stores the entity labels as keys and keywords as values, and FPDG will attend to keywords through attending to their entity labels. Experiments conducted a large-scale real-world product description dataset show that our model achieves the state-of-the-art performance in terms of both traditional generation metrics as well as human evaluations. Specifically, FPDG increases the fidelity of the generated descriptions by 25{\%}.",
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%T Stick to the Facts: Learning towards a Fidelity-oriented E-Commerce Product Description Generation
%A Chan, Zhangming
%A Chen, Xiuying
%A Wang, Yongliang
%A Li, Juntao
%A Zhang, Zhiqiang
%A Gai, Kun
%A Zhao, Dongyan
%A Yan, Rui
%Y Inui, Kentaro
%Y Jiang, Jing
%Y Ng, Vincent
%Y Wan, Xiaojun
%S Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)
%D 2019
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Hong Kong, China
%F chan-etal-2019-stick
%X Different from other text generation tasks, in product description generation, it is of vital importance to generate faithful descriptions that stick to the product attribute information. However, little attention has been paid to this problem. To bridge this gap we propose a model named Fidelity-oriented Product Description Generator (FPDG). FPDG takes the entity label of each word into account, since the product attribute information is always conveyed by entity words. Specifically, we first propose a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) decoder based on the Entity-label-guided Long Short-Term Memory (ELSTM) cell, taking both the embedding and the entity label of each word as input. Second, we establish a keyword memory that stores the entity labels as keys and keywords as values, and FPDG will attend to keywords through attending to their entity labels. Experiments conducted a large-scale real-world product description dataset show that our model achieves the state-of-the-art performance in terms of both traditional generation metrics as well as human evaluations. Specifically, FPDG increases the fidelity of the generated descriptions by 25%.
%R 10.18653/v1/D19-1501
%U https://aclanthology.org/D19-1501
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/D19-1501
%P 4959-4968
Markdown (Informal)
[Stick to the Facts: Learning towards a Fidelity-oriented E-Commerce Product Description Generation](https://aclanthology.org/D19-1501) (Chan et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
ACL
- Zhangming Chan, Xiuying Chen, Yongliang Wang, Juntao Li, Zhiqiang Zhang, Kun Gai, Dongyan Zhao, and Rui Yan. 2019. Stick to the Facts: Learning towards a Fidelity-oriented E-Commerce Product Description Generation. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), pages 4959–4968, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.